While they were here, they told us about the people who moved in next door to them. The new people are a little younger than my parents, and they have been pretty friendly since they moved in. The couple have never been able to have children, so they just adopted twin baby girls. They brought the twins over to Mom and Dad’s house to show them, but Dad was gone when they arrived, so only Mom got to see them that day. After Dad got home from his trip, he saw the man, Alan, loading the twins into the car. Dad went over to them and said, “Hey, Alan—let me see those girls!” Alan, showing off one of the girls, said, “Here’s Madelyn…Emma’s over there, but you don’t have to go over--she looks just like Madelyn.”
Alan had them laughing again when he called my dad over a few days later and said, “Robert, did you know there’s a skunk coming into your garage at night and eating your cat’s food?” Dad said that he did know about the skunk but wasn’t really worried about it. Alan mentioned that he might try to help with the skunk problem.
A few days later, as my parents were leaving the house to go somewhere, they were shocked to see Alan as he popped up from behind some nearby bushes, armed with a pellet gun and wearing shooting goggles. Basically, Alan looked like the man pictured below.
My parents laughed so hard as Alan detailed his “Skunk Plan.” I guess it’s good to have neighbors who look out for you!
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